Would you like fries with your McKnuckle Sandwich?
Posted on 01/19/2023 5:57:56 PM PST by simpson96
An infamous McDonald’s restaurant is finally closing down after receiving well over 1,000 calls to police over criminal activity including a viral brawl where a customer unleashed a pet raccoon.
A McDonald’s located in Canada’s capital of Ottawa will be shutting its doors for good after years of criminal complaints and debauchery taking place at the fast food joint.
The location, dubbed by many as the “world’s worst,” has seen plenty of wild stories over the years from sexual acts taking place in its washrooms, drug deals and fights between patrons.
As CTV News reports, the police were called to the then 24-hour restaurant 800 times in 2018, prompting concerns about “ongoing criminal activity and social disorder.”
Despite the store changing its hours, in 2022 the location still had over 150 calls to cops as nefarious behavior continued to plague the area.
In 2013, the McDonald’s location went viral after a brawl between multiple customers was recorded on a cell phone.
Amid the chaos and haymakers, one of the patrons even pulled a raccoon out of his jacket. What the raccoon was doing getting involved in such a spectacle remains a mystery.
The video has been viewed nearly 1M times since first being uploaded on YouTube and remains one of the craziest restaurant brawls not involving a Waffle House.
A few years later, a former manager for the McDonald’s held an AMA on Reddit where they revealed the most disturbing moments they experienced working at the store.
“One night, not dissuaded by the locked doors, this guy and girl went the ‘dirty-divot’ (the nook right in front of the washrooms). Via the security camera, we noticed some unusual behavior,” they said.
“At that moment, some random tried to enter the locked bathroom. After no success at opening the door, and completely ignoring the friendly couple, started to poop right on the floor right next to them At no point did either party acknowledge the other. All three finished at about the same time, and went their separate ways.”
The madness didn’t stop there. According to the manager, they were even threatened one night for kicking a customer out after he assaulted a woman.
“He told me he was going to wait for me to get off work and kill me, and proceeded to wait outside the store for two hours,” the manager revealed, adding that the police couldn’t do anything about it.
“The guy came back the next day and apologized, to which I accepted. However, a week later, the same guy came back, assaulted another woman, and now he’s banned for life.”
The current McDonald’s location is scheduled for lease in the third quarter of 2023.
Would you like fries with your McKnuckle Sandwich?
In Ottawa? Piney’s?
I’ve visited Ottawa.
It is entirely populated by Canadian civil servants, i.e. the most depressed and boring city in the world.
Very surprised that their McDonald’s was so action packed.
At least they mustered the will to run horses over old Indian women. That sure showed em. S/
> one of the patrons even pulled a raccoon out of his jacket <
I have said many times that a permit should be required for raccoon concealed-carry. People laughed at me for saying that.
Finally I am proven correct.
I was in DC once, and on my way back to the hotel we stopped at this 2 story McDonald’s. I go back to work in TN and am chatting with a guy who lived in the area. He tells of the time that he tried to go to this McDonald’s, but there was a gang war going on INSIDE it, so he went somewhere else. “It was scary. It was a 2-story one down near DC”.
I was expecting this closed one to be THAT one.
I think I would just go to Harvey’s, then.
Once any place of business has a reputation of ‘that’s where all those fights happen’, it’s hard to get rid of that smear.
My guess is somebody who find them self in the mood to deliver a ‘knuckle sandwich to the mouth’ to the next person that tees them off, will head to a restaurant with that local reputation.
The popular belief may be “The staff don’t mind if you get a little rowdy there. They can deal with it.
People expect to see it, especially on weekend nights.”
I was wondering what a “viral brawl with a raccoon “ would be.
A dozen customers throwing furniture at a raccoon. And the raccoon throwing pots and pans?
LOL
Not the world’s worst McDonald’s.
The world’s worst McDonald’s customers.
It looked like a small caliber raccoon.
Personally, I don’t blame the guy with the raccoon. I wouldn’t go in there without one.
No. Literally wielding a raccoon as a defensive weapon.
900 calls
800 calls
WAIT
Not knowing for certain, but betting that there was more than one coon in the place.
I went to Canada several times when I first got married, before the Great Recession. Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island. A little strange: the Catholic Church had caught on to the use of the sacred in idiomatic profanities, and was challenging people to prepare themselves to “enter the tabernacle,” etc. That’s a lesson on the Theology of the Body that goes way down the rabbit hole.
BEAUTIFUL. Loved the people. Loved the cheap hotels. Hope Trudeau hasn’t destroyed it, but if it survived his father...
He was pining for the fjords.
That is one unhappy meal.
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